Size matters! Association between journal size and longitudinal variability of the Journal Impact Factor

Who ever said size doesn't matter? The association between journal title length and impact factor

Google Scholar journal metrics: Comparison with impact factor and SCImago journal rank indicator for nuclear medicine journals

Introduction: In the current study, we compared h5-index provided by Google Scholar (GS), impact factor (IF) provided by web of sciences (WOS), and SCImago journal rank indicator (SJR) provided by SCOPUS for quality assessment of nuclear medicine journals. Methods: 2013 h5-index, 2012 IF, and 2011 SJR of nuclear medicine journals were extracted from their publishers namely GS, WOS, and SCOPUS....

Size Matters: The Impact of Physician Practice Size on Productivity

Physician practices in the US are largely small-scale, independently-run enterprises, despite their potential critical role in creating a more integrated health care system. Using an approach that builds on – and extends – prior research, we estimate physician practice production functions for different types of practices (multispecialty, single-specialty, and six subspecialties within single-s...

How size matters: exploring the association between quality of mental health services and catchment area size

BACKGROUND The diversity of mental health and substance abuse services (MHS) available to service users is seen as an indicator of the quality of the service system. In most countries MHS are provided by a mix of public, private and third sector providers. In Finland, officially, the municipalities are responsible for organizing the services needed, but the real extent and roles of private and ...

Over the Journal Impact Factor

Thomson Reuters reports journal impact factor (JIF) 2012 thr­ ough its web database, Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (http:// apps.webofknowledge.com) for journals indexed in the Science Citation Index (SCI/SCIE). Many top journals are reported to continue their high JIF and most of others keep similar or in­ creased ones as JIF 2011. The JCR updates JIF every year and the JIF 2012 will be used ...